Arcadia Police sealed off a square block on Foothill Blvd Friday morning following a report of a suspicious package found in the parking lot of a branch of Bank of America on Foothill Boulevard.
The Arcadia police immediately notified the LA County sheriff’s bomb squad after a report of a backpack being left in the bushes in the parking lot of Bank of America, at Foothill Boulevard and Second Avenue.
The bomb squad used a robot to pick up the back pak and subsequently made a small explosion to see the contents. A Bomb squad officer inspected the remains and gace the all clear a few minutes later.
Foothills Middle School was on lockdown during the two hour in which it took to determine the area safe.
The neighborhood around the bank was also closed to both vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
Photos by Terry Miller